Sr. Packaging Engineer (Semiconductor)

Overview

Lead advanced package development for discrete protection products (TVS, TDS, Hot Switch), serving as the technical interface with OSAT partners and supporting reliability qualification and failure analysis.

What you'll do

• Define, develop, and qualify advanced package architectures (WLCSP, DFN, QFN, flip-chip, multi-die) for TVS, TDS, and Hot Switch protection products, ensuring electrical, thermal, and mechanical performance requirements are met across the full product portfolio.
• Serve as a technical interface with external assembly and test (OSAT) partners, supporting process capability improvements, applying established design rules, and helping ensure adherence to package specifications and quality standards across international manufacturing sites.
• Support the development and execution of package-level reliability qualification plans in accordance with JEDEC and AEC-Q101 standards, including HTSL, HAST, TC, and MSL testing, and contribute to root cause investigations for any reliability failures encountered during qualification or production.
• Perform systematic failure analysis of package-related defects, including die cracking, chipping, delamination, wire bond lift, and interconnect degradation, and help implement corrective actions to improve yield and long-term product reliability.
• Partner closely with IC design, process engineering, product engineering, and test teams to ensure package constraints and parasitics are accounted for early in the product development cycle, and provide packaging input to NPI planning and tape-out reviews.
• Conduct package-level electrical and thermal simulations to optimize package performance for high-current transient protection applications, and validate simulation results through characterization and bench testing.
• Contribute technical input to the advanced packaging technology roadmap owned by the principal packaging engineer, helping identify emerging packaging technologies, materials innovations, and cost reduction opportunities.
• Author and maintain comprehensive packaging specifications, process control documents, design rule guidelines, and qualification reports, ensuring full traceability and compliance with internal quality systems and customer-specific requirements.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or a closely related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of progressive experience in semiconductor packaging engineering, with a demonstrated track record of increasing technical responsibility.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience with advanced package formats relevant to discrete protection devices, including WLCSP, DFN, QFN, SOD, SOT, and flip-chip assemblies.
• Direct experience working with OSAT partners in a technical capacity, including process development, design rule definition, and supplier qualification activities.
• Proven experience executing JEDEC and AEC-Q101 reliability qualification programs, including test plan development, data analysis, and formal qualification reporting.
• Deep understanding of semiconductor assembly processes including wafer dicing, die attach, wire bonding, molding, plating, and wafer-level packaging processes such as WBC (wafer backside coating) and CDAF.
• Proficiency in failure analysis techniques including cross-sectioning, SEM/EDX, SAT (scanning acoustic tomography), and optical microscopy.
• Working knowledge of package-level electrical and thermal simulation tools.
• Familiarity with statistical process control (SPC), CPK analysis, and DOE methodologies as applied to packaging process development.
• Understanding of ESD, TVS, and protection IC device physics and how package parasitics influence transient protection performance.

Nice to have

• Master's degree or PhD.
• Strong technical communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to present complex packaging topics to both engineering peers and executive management.
• Experience working effectively in a cross-functional, globally distributed team environment spanning design, manufacturing, quality, and commercial organizations.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally to OSAT and fabrication partner sites as needed.

Details

• Onsite role.